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Foxcatcher begins with Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum, who usually restricts himself to goofball comedies), a socially-awkward character, telling a group of schoolchildren about how he takes part in wrestling because it enabled him to win …
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Stations of the Cross begins with Maria (Lea van Acken) and her Sunday School class being taught the rights and wrongs of the spiritual world by a vicar who is lecturing them on the week …
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The Rover is set in Australia, ten years after the world’s economic collapse, and has an environment that looks like a post-apocalyptic world in the near future. If you want to get ahead, you don’t …
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The Theory of Everything stars Birdsong‘s Eddie Redmayne as Professor Steven Hawking, who was also played, brilliantly, in the 2004 BBC film Hawking, by Benedict Cumberbatch. Both are going head-to-head in the 2015 Awards season, …
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God’s Pocket is a grim town and there’s, apparently, things you only understand about it if you were brought up there, according to local hack Richard Shellburn (Richard Jenkins). The fact that meat van driver …
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Left Behind is what happened to this film. As Dying of the Light dies on its arse at the box office, this straight-to-DVD Nicolas Cage flick fares no better. With an obscenely long intro where …
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A new year brings a look back at the previous year’s releases and everything we watched at the cinema or on Blu-ray at home, plus all those computer and console delights in The Best and …
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Dying of the Light begins with CIA agent Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage) being beaten up and tortured by a terrorist called Muhammad Banir (Alexander Karim) while he’d rather the shoe was on the other foot… …
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The Guest begins with the intriguing premise where the charming and charismatic David (Dan Stevens) turns up out of the blue at the house of the Peterson family, announcing that he served in the military …
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Let’s Be Cops sees Ryan (Jake Johnson) and Justin (Damon Wayans Jr) as losers with no real career going for them who, as you might’ve guessed, decide one day to pretend to be cops. Ryan …
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